Colombia · Andean Region
The landscape that fed the world's mornings for a century. Most people have never seen it.
Why Visit
The Eje Cafetero — the Coffee Axis — is Colombia's most visually dramatic region and its least understood. Rolling hills covered in coffee plants, haciendas that have been in the same family for five generations, a way of life that has not changed because it has not needed to.
What AURALIS Reveals Here
Not a coffee tour. An introduction. Breakfast with a family on their finca, served by the people who grew what's in your cup. A private tour of a micro-lot operation where the owner can explain, in precise detail, why this particular hillside produces something that sells for forty dollars a cup in Tokyo. The Cocora Valley — home to the world's tallest palm trees — at the hour when the mist is still in the valley and you are the only ones there.
A cloud-brushed valley of wax palms — the world's tallest — rising up to 200 feet over the green hills of Quindío. Colombia's national tree, in its only home.
Balconies in every color, artisans' workshops and the unhurried rhythm of Salento and Filandia — towns where the paisa culture of the region is lived, not staged.
Private tastings on third-generation haciendas — the story of the bean told by the family that has grown it for a century, ending in the cup in your hands.
Where You'll Stay
When To Go
December through February, and June through August. Harvest season brings an added dimension.
Getting Here
Via Armenia or Pereira airports, both served from Bogotá. Two and a half hours from Bogotá by road through some of Colombia's most beautiful mountain scenery.
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Speak with Camilo first — one conversation is all it takes to design the right journey.
Speak with Camilo